Outdoor or exterior lighting
Outdoor lighting for a building is the light source that is being integrated to building’s outside for some general purpose such as to decorate the building at night and give improve the safety feature of the building to prevent some accident to occur when somebody walk or drive near to the building.
There are a lot of reasons why it is a good idea to add suitable and functional outdoor lighting to your home or some buildings. Illumination was the main reason why most people decide to have the outdoor lighting. In fact, even if you are decide for including landscape lighting in your outdoor design, you will find there are benefits you hadn’t even thought of.
Beside that, safety and security factor also becoming the consideration of why most people decide to add outdoor lighting to a building. Please keep in mind that criminal is looking for place to burglarize or vandalize that is not going to be easy to be detected such as some dark corner. Obviously a home lit up like a Christmas tree is not going to be the choice of the thief. So, all the building deserve to have a proper outdoor lighting.
How outdoor lighting affect us
Research have state that not proper or suitable outdoor light at night will always cause a negative effect human health. This is because it will increasing risks for getting some healthy problem such as obesity, depression, sleep disorders, diabetes, breast cancer and more.
Beside that, a low quality or not suitable outdoor lighting can also cause some side effect such as the eye strain problem. Eye strain can cause a lot of health problem such as headaches, irritability, fatigue and an overall feeling of poor health. Moreover, outdoor lighting can impact visual comfort of a person. Glare from bad outdoor lighting is a safety hazard.
Glare from poorly shielded outdoor lighting is also harmful to us, because it decreases vision by reducing the range of view for a person. This limits our ability to see potential dangers at night and at finally it will cause aging of eyes to be faster.